On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:01:45PM -0800, Richard Elling - PAE wrote:
Chris Adams wrote:
We're looking at replacing a current Linux server with a T1000 + a fiber
channel enclosure to take advantage of ZFS. Unfortunately, the T1000 only
has a single drive bay (!) which makes it impossible to
[Richard removes his Sun hat...]
Ceri Davies wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:01:45PM -0800, Richard Elling - PAE wrote:
Chris Adams wrote:
We're looking at replacing a current Linux server with a T1000 + a fiber
channel enclosure to take advantage of ZFS. Unfortunately, the T1000 only
has
Chris Adams wrote:
We're looking at replacing a current Linux server with a T1000 + a fiber channel enclosure
to take advantage of ZFS. Unfortunately, the T1000 only has a single drive bay (!) which
makes it impossible to follow our normal practice of mirroring the root file system;
naturally
Richard Elling - PAE wrote:
Is anyone actually booting ZFS in production and, if so, would you
recommend this approach?
At this time, I would not recommend it for SPARC systems.
I'll note that I've been using S10U2 on a similar system (two drives)
with slices. I currently have S10U2 with
On 27/10/06, Christopher Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can manually set up a ZFS root environment but it requires a UFS
partition to boot off of.
See: http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/are_you_ready_to_rumble
There's a slightly improved procedure at
On 10/28/06, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/2006/06/zfs-root-on-solaris-part-2.html
It uses a /grub partition rather than a full root FS to boot from - you
still need a UFS / for the initial install, but after the first boot into ZFS
you can reformat that
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:19:24AM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote:
On 10/28/06, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/2006/06/zfs-root-on-solaris-part-2.html
It uses a /grub partition rather than a full root FS to boot from - you
still need a UFS / for the initial
Brian Hechinger wrote:
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:19:24AM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote:
On 10/28/06, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/2006/06/zfs-root-on-solaris-part-2.html
It uses a /grub partition rather than a full root FS to boot from - you
still need
Chris Adams wrote:
Is anyone actually booting ZFS in production and, if so, would you recommend
this approach?
ZFS-boot has not been released in any official way
yet. Only parts of it are available in OpenSolaris.
So no, no one should be booting ZFS in production yet.
Lori
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 07:52:36AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Adams wrote:
Is anyone actually booting ZFS in production and, if so, would you
recommend this approach?
ZFS-boot has not been released in any official way
yet. Only parts of it are available in OpenSolaris.
So
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:23:37PM -0500, Christopher Scott wrote:
You can manually set up a ZFS root environment but it requires a UFS
partition to boot off of.
See: http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/are_you_ready_to_rumble
That's not was I was refering to. I'm interested in testing the
Brian Hechinger wrote:
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:23:37PM -0500, Christopher Scott wrote:
You can manually set up a ZFS root environment but it requires a UFS
partition to boot off of.
See: http://blogs.sun.com/tabriz/entry/are_you_ready_to_rumble
That's not was I was refering to.
We're looking at replacing a current Linux server with a T1000 + a fiber
channel enclosure to take advantage of ZFS. Unfortunately, the T1000 only has a
single drive bay (!) which makes it impossible to follow our normal practice of
mirroring the root file system; naturally the idea of using
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